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Katherine McIntire Peters

Katherine is deputy editor of Government Executive Media Group, a division of Atlantic Media, where she oversees editorial coverage for GovExec.com and Government Executive magazine. She previously was executive editor of Nextgov.

April 1, 2000
kpeters@govexec.com n a chilly day in January, engineer Dennis Markle walked around the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor surveying the scene. Piers could be extended; the main channel might be deepened. Any number of things might be done to facilitate waterborne traffic at the busy port. But what would be the...

March 1, 2000
kpeters@govexec.com hen George Bohlinger assumed a top management position at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in April 1996, he was astounded to discover the agency didn't have an administration manual. But the absence of a guide to agency policies and procedures was only the first of many surprises. Employees didn't...

March 1, 2000
kpeters@govexec.com y the end of this month, the Treasury Department will produce its third annual governmentwide fin-ancial statement. And while the General Accounting Office will soon weigh in with a report on the statement, GAO's conclusion won't be a cliffhanger for federal managers. In fact, GAO will find much of...

March 1, 2000
kpeters@govexec.com ennis Norris knows the lower Mississippi River in a way no chart or graph or book can explain. He knows it in a way that can't be taught, but only learned through years of living with the roiling, headstrong currents that surge and shift through the heart of America....

February 1, 2000
kpeters@govexec.com recently retired Navy captain, looking back on more than 25 years in uniform, can still picture the movers that showed up the first time he was reassigned to a new duty station. They arrived drunk and kept right on drinking as they packed and loaded the hard-earned possessions of...

December 1, 1999
kpeters@govexec.com he military's top procurement priorities read like a Cold War wish list. Despite uncontested control of the seas and shipping lanes, the Navy is investing heavily in aircraft carriers, carrier-based tactical jets and submarines. The Air Force, undisputed ruler of the skies worldwide, will spend billions of dollars on...

November 1, 1999
hile most federal agencies are cutting back to core competencies, the Marine Corps is working hard to develop a new one: financial management. "Business concepts have never really been core concepts for the Marine Corps," said Col. Dave Clifton, speaking at a seminar sponsored by ABC Technologies in Washington recently....

October 1, 1999
nformation overload is by no means the only threat to military decision-making on the battlefield. There are other more mundane factors that can imperil the best of minds: The unique stress of combat, the immense fatigue troops often experience for long stretches of time, and the effect of collective thinking...

October 1, 1999
kpeters@govexec.com rom the siege of Troy to the battle of Mogadishu, confusion has been an abiding feature of military operations. No wonder then, that in this age of technological revolution, military planners are turning to new technologies to address a problem as old as warfare itself. Besides building more lethal...

September 1, 1999
uring an experiment in March to test the Navy's ability to respond to an insurgency in a nation friendly to the United States, the greatest threat to the service's powerful combatant ships didn't come from other ships. Instead, the biggest problem was defending against divers attempting to attach explosives to...